You guys are aces, thank you so much for all the card game suggestions! Brilliant! Please go and look at the comments on the last post if you are interested in all in expanding your family's card game repertoire. You've inspired me to start keeping a deck of cards in my bag for the kids and I to play on the go.
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Ok, onto today's subject at hand. A new quilt needs to be made!
I've been stumped for months over what my next quilt will be for our bedroom. At first it was to be Hills n Hollers, but then no, that would be too much solid empty space, plus that one felt like it was meant to be a family room quilt from the day I started it. Then it was going to be Stacking the Odds. I ordered the pattern and slept with it under my pillow for a long time, but it just didn't click for me as the right one. Our bedroom has a lot of its space taken up visually by the bed, so it feels like the quilt has to be one I love more than anything, and that's a lot of pressure. So, I've sat and thought about it during empty moments of the day, because these sort of things are important to me. Not to anyone else in the house. I get that. But that's okay, I'll do the thinking about these things for us, no problem. I knew you'd understand.
But, just say these dilemmas out loud, like "It have to have some color, but I think it'll also have space with little or no color or I'll get tired of it" and suddenly everyone is giving you a big blank stare and backing away v e r y s l o w l y.
We quilters truly are on a higher plane.
Anyway, I had a moment the other day when I knew all my thinking had paid off. Not so much an "aha!" moment as just a quiet little "that would totally work!" moment. I sketched out a quilt design, figured out my fantasy placement of squares, and think I've come up with a plan. Just the right amount of everything...my favorite color pairings (in this case a trio of colors, yellows, whites, and grays)) sewn into simple shapes that use the fabrics to their fullest effect (something I began to think much more about after reading Jane's book). It feels both bright and relaxing, and I think I will love it during the darkest of Seattle winters (cozy, but dreary).
I am mixing a few fabrics in my stash that work, and then adding in some whites, maybe even textured white. It'll be fun to play... I'm going to back this quilt in flannel, for winter. (Truth be told, its almost July and I still use our flannel-backed quilt some evenings in the family room.) I will still use our beloved what a bunch of squares quilt for half the year.
I'm really glad I still love this palette so much after writing this post, because it will require about 9 yards to make this quilt. And, you know, that's a whole lot of fabric to not like.
Row 1 from left to right: Marylebone for Liberty, Denyse Schmidt's Hope Valley, the paisley collection by Liberty Arts
Row 2 from left to right: Weekends in Gray by Erin McMorris, from Anna Maria's Good Folks Line, Kaffe Fassett in Gray
I also ordered this one.
